2024 Harvard Staff Art Show Teaser
Animated by Vincent Liu | Music: Exit the Fool by Bill Carter
(DESCRIPTION)
An animation where miniature ninjas in black masks and body coverings peek into the frame from its edges.
A framed picture crashes, smashing the floor to bits and pieces.
(SPEECH)
[GLASS BREAKS]
(DESCRIPTION)
It’s a ninja!
(SPEECH)
[FEET MOVING FAST]
(DESCRIPTION)
The ninja examines the framed picture, a black-and-white illustration of a woman with long dark hair. A question mark appears by his head.
The ninja scurries to the other side of the picture and pushes it across the screen.
(SPEECH)
[DRAGGING SOUND]
(DESCRIPTION)
Clouds of smoke billow from the broken chunks on the floor as the frame is dragged through them. The ninja grabs an eraser on a long pole and wipes out the entire picture.
(SPEECH)
[SCRATCHING SOUND]
(DESCRIPTION)
The ninja tosses the eraser away, off the screen. With a running jump, he kicks the top edge of the frame. A cartoonish POW! — yellow letters in a spiked red frame — appears.
The ninja scurries away as words appear inside the frame: 2024 Staff Art Show.
A digital hand with extended index finger comes flying across the screen from the right and clicks on the background. The hand drags the frame to the center above the pile of shattered chunks.
The hand clicks on the chunks and drags them away to the right. He drags the frame off the screen to the left.
(SPEECH)
[APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
(DESCRIPTION)
The words in the frame — 2024 Staff Art Show — blow up, decompose into jagged strips, and vanish.
Images appear: a green, black, and white butterfly clutching a stem.
A black-and-white image of a girl playing an upright piano outside a cafe. A man next to the piano leaps in the air.
A modern art collage. Sepia-toned image of a wooden bridge over water. Illustration of the moon rising over mountains. A watercolor drawing of a young woman by a car, bundled up for the cold weather.
Three fitness performers pose onstage. A black-and-white image of two dads, each carrying their child on their shoulders.
A drawing of a smiling young woman. A dog walking along the shoreline, clutching a red ball in its mouth.
The edge of the Milky Way galaxy streams across a star-filled sky with the beaming light atop an old lighthouse in the foreground.
A pair of old shoes. A geometric black-and-white pattern of a winding staircase in a building.
A wall composed of square stones near an ascending platform. A male model, a brunette with a tuft of blonde hair. Text, Ceci n’est pas du Genre.
A silhouetted old tree in wintertime, its bare branches forming pathways like neuron connections.
A collage image of a furnished dollhouse. Tiny dinette sets with mugs and bowls of fruit; staircases, windows with drapes, bathrooms and wallpapered bedrooms; refrigerator, stove, sink, and cabinets.
An impressionistic painting of gable-roof yellow, blue, red, white, and green houses at the bottom of a verdant green hill. On top, a mansion is situated on a plot of land.
A painting of a girl in a globe, her clown makeup reflecting a frown, black tears running from her eyes. A large woman’s head peers into the globe, her clown makeup and hair vivid in its metallic colors, her mouth outlined in black into a smile.
A collage of a woman laying down and staring up; an engraved water pitcher in the corner, against a blue background.
A shifting collage of a house in a field; a ceramic teapot with two matching mugs; a shifting collage of a dresser against a background of pinks and beiges.
Shifting collages of black and white painted shapes, streaks, and dots.
A cartoon image of a bed on which are set two mugs filled with steaming hot coffee. Two black appendages like tubular arms extend from each mug. In the living area are two rocking chairs, a man’s glasses and mouth in the pale blue upholstery of one and a woman’s in the other.
A fractured illustration of Jimi Hendrix. Streaks of red, gold, and orange above the horizon as the sun sets on the ocean.
Logo, 2024 Staff Art Show.